The NeverEnding Story,
released in 1984, was a fantasy sci-fi drama. The movie
was based on a 1979 novel by Michael Ende. The movie
scored well with critics, and although it was the most
expensive film to have been produced outside of the USA
and the USSR, it still made a very nice profit. The
film was successful enough to warrant two sequels: The
NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter was released in
1990, and The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from
Fantasia, was released in 1994.

In this movie, young
Bastian Bux, who has recently lost his mother and is
relatively friendless, spends his days reading books.
One day on the way to school, he hides in a bookstore to
escape the torment of some neighborhood bullies, and he
borrows a magical book that he takes to school and
reads. The book was about the world of Fantasia, where
a force called “The Nothing” threatened its very
existence. In Fantasia, the Empress has asked a young
warrior, Arteyu, to find out how to stop the Nothing.
The Nothing, on the other hand, summons an evil wolf to
kill Arteyu. As the trek becomes difficult, Atreyu is
nearly lost, but he is rescued by a luckdragon named
Falkor.

Come to find out, the
only way to stop the nothing was to have a human child
give the Princess a new name. It just so happened that
the book was magical, and the characters are able to
communicate with each other through the story, much like
as if through a window. In the end, Bastian is able to
give the Princess the name of “Moonchild”, which was his
mother’s name, and the Nothing is stopped though his
imagination.